"An AIDS Requiem" and "Lilacs" by Ron Hirsch
Oral History
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![Dedicated to those who died of AIDS and to those who survived them, “Songs of Love and Remembrance” is a song cycle by Chicago composer Ron Hirsch that draws inspiration from disparate sources: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Walt Whitman’s requiem for Lincoln; Joyce Carol Oates’ “Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks 1942,” a dark meditation […]](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/4124/cd4e88d0-10b0-11f0-974f-e5d990ae5223-vQbDJ3t.lg@2x.jpg)
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Video recording of classical music performance. "An AIDS Requiem" and "Lilacs" by Ron Hirsch
Music: concerts, festivals, performances
1960 Gay/LGBTQ+ culture
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Hirsch, Ron